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You can try to eat as little as you want, but you won't be able to sustain it. You will get a nasty hunger that will eat away your mental willpower and endurance. You need these for other things and doing so will kill your diet. I actually lowered my calorie deficit when I started doing sports again. That means I lose…

These diets are inherently a short term, quick fix with out learning experience and therefore nothing I would recommend.

If you are way under your goal, it isn't your goal anymore, your goal will become to be under your goal. That's why I would lower it. I've set my goal to the lowest amount of calories I need to consume to stay healthy and not hungry. I'm often 10 - 50kcals over it, that's ok. If you are constantly 100kcal or more over your…

As long as you aren't malnourished, you can't lose too fast.

In the worst case you get really malnourished, than you have to stop your diet, you shouldn't risk it.

I stick to 800 to 900kcal. The hard part is to find nutritious food, so you can have less calories, while still getting all the nutrients - but is helps you building a healthy diet. You should be fine with 1200kcal.

Just eat the same things as you would in the week, that's what I do

I did and I also lost additional weight. :-)

That's a misconception, it doesn't work. What works is having a calorie deficit, how you reach it is nearly irrelevant.

You need to measure it, ask your physician about it.

You do well if you have a deficit, but the only way to control your deficit is a scale.

Is it just skin, or is it skin with fat? Howsoever you need to build muscle, and maybe the fat because that's what is dragging the skin down.

It's a short therm thing and these are always build to fail, because there needs to be an end.

It does, not for everyone but still it does. If you don't like exercise it's demotivating, will strain your willpower, then it just leads to abandonment of the whole diet. Some people get beastly hungry from exercise and tend to overeat the calories they spend, that's also a big strain on your willpower perseverance, it…

Then keep it! :smile:

Skinny fat people are overweight, with all the disadvantages, but there is not such thing as a fit skinny fat person. But there are fit overweight people. So losing weight and then being skinny fat is still a way better position, than just being overweight. The exercise can start at the end of the main weight loss. Yes,…

It would be much better for you to not do the 10ks and to lose weight instead. If you are overweight and fit your health is still worse, than being in a normal weight range without sport. Think about your child, do you think it's nice to have a fat, immobile mom, who dies early? I don't think so. Take care for your child…

1/4 of a Watermelon, that will be around about 500g -750g of fruit if it is not to big. With a lot of water (90%) and therefore mass. At 38kcal per 100g that comes out between 190 and 285kcal. It's important to weigh it.

They don't want to promote undereating and I think thats a good thing. I eat 800 to 900 kcal, sometimes as a "cheat" day 1200 kcal. If you eat clean, pay attention to your nutrients and have an office job, that's possible. You also can set MFP to just count these 800, but it will not recommend it. With 1200 kcal everyone…

Easy peasy! :smile: Failing to eat what you should is part of a diet. Even the most dedicated people will slip and slide here and there, you can accept that. Don't panic just go on, like it was a regular meal and eat your regular portions for your next meals. Maybe be you won't lose weight today, but you can still lose…

I eat 800-900kcal and walk at least 15.000 Steps a day that's ~12km. I'm happy, not hangry or hungry. I pay attention to my nutrients, which is not always easy.

No it's not. Skinny fat is a term used for people with an BMI that is ok, but with a percentage of body fat, that is way to high, resulting in the same effects than being overweight. That has nothing to do with weight loss, it can happen to everyone.

And if you just train your muscles in a certain spot, without losing fat, the muscle will grow under the fat and you will look bigger.

It by the way a perfect valid thing to just lose weight and to really change your habits when you reached your goal. There are studies that suggest that rapid weight loss is correlated with keeping the weight loss. It also depends how patient you are, if you need fast change to stay motivated do that. Just pay attention to…

The amount of stored water can change fast, it can be demotivating when the scale shows more weight again, but remember that, because it will probably happen. But fat also binds water, so you will lose more weight, than just the simple amount of fat.

That should be absolutely doable. Calculate what you need to lose per week and check that you do. If you lose less, eat less, if you lose more, take advantage of it, if you feel good.

Even if is where true, people still buy lottery tickets. If they believe they will win the lottery, they should believe they can lose weight.

You have two choices. You can have a very low calorie diet (not 0), as long as you get all the nutrients you need. But you cant do that and sports because your nutrient need will be much higher. You don't want to be malnourished.

BMI is wrong, but not in the way people think it is. 97% of people who are overweight following the BMI guidelines, are in fact just that, overweight. The 3% who aren't will know, because you don't get a lot of muscle by chance. On the other hand a lot of muscle wont help, if your body fat is high, then you are still just…

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